College Football Week 13 Betting Tips
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Which teams will play for a BCS bowl game?
We’ll know soon enough. But right now, we have games for you to bet on for Week 13 of the 2009 NCAA college football season.
First we have the Oklahoma State Cowboys looking for their fourth straight victory as they battle the Oklahoma Sooners. The 12th Cowboys are on a roll with three straight wins, getting a huge lift from quarterback Zac Robinson.
He set an Oklahoma State record last season by completing 65 percent of his passes and still has a shot at achieving that mark again, completing 158 of 249 passes for a .635 completion percentage in 2009. Also stepping up for the Cowboys is running back Keith Toston. Since taking over as Oklahoma State’s featured rusher, the guy has averaged 103.6 yards.
On the other hand, the Oklahoma Sooners will try to rebound from a 41-13 loss against Texas Tech. With the loss, Oklahoma (6-5, 4-3) now has its most losses since going 7-5 in 1999. It was just the fifth victory in 17 meetings for Texas Tech against the Sooners, and the Red Raiders had never won by more than 10 points in the series.
The huge win was a stunning reversal from last season, when the Sooners crushed Texas Tech 65-21 to end the Red Raiders’ national championship hopes. Oklahoma hadn’t lost this badly since falling to Texas 45-12 in 2005.
Expect the Sooners to bounce back against the Cowboys.
The no.1 team in the nation Florida Gators will look to continue to play at a high level Saturday at home against the Florida State Seminoles. Florida already posted a significant accomplishment in becoming just the 13th team to make it through an SEC regular season undefeated following a 24-14 win over South Carolina.
Florida’s Joe Haden was named SEC Defensive Player of the Week following his performance against South Carolina. Haden led the Gators with 11 tackles, including a sack. He also had an interception, a career-high two forced fumbles and a pass breakup.
Florida’s defense has come through big in the…
Can the Florida Gators win the SEC?
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Guys from SPORTSBETTING.com know it, that’s why they’re hyping this thing up as much as they can already.
The 2009 NCAA college football season hits Week 12 and already, attention is focused on the SEC championship game to be played a couple of weeks from now. It will, barring a complete disaster, be a matchup between the no.1 Florida Gators and no.2 Alabama Crimson Tide. Online sportsbooks currently have the Gators as the odds-on favorite to win the SEC at 5/9, with Alabama sporting odds of 7/5.
The BCS’ top 5 teams remain unchanged from the previous week with the Florida Gators still on top, the Alabama Crimson Tide second and then followed by the Texas Longhorns, the TCU Horned Frogs and the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Florida hasn’t deviated from top spot since the BCS rankings first came out a little over a month ago and with two more easy games before the conference championship, there is no reason why the Gators shouldn’t remain at the top of the 2009 BCS rankings heading into the big game.
This week, Florida has a tilt against the Florida International Golden Panthers. This should be a blowout. It is one of the biggest pointspread margins of the season, with sportsbooks listing the Gators as 43-point favorites.
Florida is currently riding an 11-game straight up winning streak. They have recorded a mark of 9-5-1 ATS the last 15 times they’ve been listed as a favorite of 8 points or more, but they’re only 2-5-1 ATS in the last eight in that spread range. Although 43 points is a wild spread to ask a team to cover.
Sports bettors are still enamored with the no.1 team in the nation, as 74 percent of all the betting volume on this is laying the 43 points.
A quick note on the Total in this one; the last eight times the Gators have been favored by eight points or more, they have a mark of 1 Over, 6 Unders and 1 Push. The Gators should be able to get by FSU too the week after when the cross-state rivals meet. Since 1995, Florida is 5-2 ATS in seven home games against the Seminoles.
All signs point to the Gators being undefeated…
Florida on top of 2009 BCS Rankings
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Surprise surprise.
After all the drama and the emotional comebacks, everything is where it should be at this point of the 2009 NCAA college football season.
You read it, because after watching Tim Tebow go down hard that almost destroyed the world around Gator fans in Florida, the Florida Gators are once again on top of the BCS rankings.
Thanks to Tebow’s surprising return to the Florida Gators roster two weekends ago, the Gators were able to stay undefeated to be named no.1 in this season’s first BCS rankings. Their first test as the nation’s no.1 team this year is on Saturday when they go up against Mississippi State.
Not far behind are the Alabama Crimson Tide. Second in every statistical category compiled by the USA Today coaches’ poll and the Harris poll, the Crimson Tide is easily Florida’s biggest threat, so far anyway. If both the Gators and the Crimson Tide remain undefeated, they will play each other in the Southeastern Conference championship. A prelude to the BCS national championship game perhaps?
Sitting on third are the Texas Longhorns, joining Florida and Alabama in the top three. With the strength of their schedule, all three just need to win out to reach the BCS national championship game on January 7 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. At least that’s according to BCS analyst (yes, the BCS has analysts…) Jerry Palm.
The problem is, it seems history is not on their side.
In the first 11 years of the BCS rankings, the top two teams in the first standings have only reached the title game once when Texas and Southern California did it in the 2005 season. Overall, only 10 of the 22 teams that were ranked first or second in the first standings made it all the way to the championship game.
That’s probably good news to the still undefeated…
Oklahoma Sooners – Texas Longhorns Tips
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Bradford’s back. That’s everything you need to know this week.
Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford and the rest of the Oklahoma Sooners are ready to face the Texas Longhorns this Saturday as the 2009 NCAA college football season continues with Week 7.
Sam Bradford had 49 throws in a 33-7 for the Oklahoma Sooners over Baylor. Bradford threw for 389 yards and a touchdown after missing the last month with a sprained AC joint in his right, throwing shoulder. It was the 14th 300-yard passing game of his career, matching the school record set by 2000 Heisman runner-up Josh Heupel.
If there’s still any questions on Bradford’s health, he sure answered those in emphatic fashion.
”I think that’s something that we were all curious around here is how I would react to 3 1/2-4 hours in my pads, on and off, not throwing the whole time, kind of sitting on the bench, coming back and making some throws,” Sam Bradford said. ”I felt like my arm responded great, and I felt good out there.”
”To have been off as much as he has and go out there in his first go at it to play as well as he did, I thought he played great,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. ”He stays away from the poor, the negative plays or the bad plays and he had a great night.”
The undefeated Texas Longhorns, on the other hand, look to continue their winning ways at the expense of the Sooners. The Longhorns beat Colorado 38-14 win Saturday night with the help of Earl Thomas and Ben Wells. Thomas returned an interception 92 yards for a touchdown while Wells recovered a blocked punt for another score to help the Longhorns pull away in the second half.
Colt McCoy became the 15th player in college football history to generate more than 12,000 total yards last weekend. He has thrown touchdown passes in 21 consecutive games. It’ll be nice to see him match-up with Bradford.
Our pick? We’re sticking with…
Tebow played, kept Gators undefeated
Monday, October 12th, 2009
Last weekend, we all saw just how important he was.
You can just imagine how worried the Florida Gators have been after watching their prized quarterback get carried off the field. And since we are only in the first few weeks of the still young 2009 NCAA college football season, what happens from here will dictate if they can still compete for the national title come January.
In case you didn’t know, Tim Tebow was taken out of their game against the Kentucky Wildcats after he was sacked hard by defensive end Taylor Wyndham. Tebow’s head hit his teammate Marcus Gilbert on the leg, bending his neck violently.
Of course, since the Florida Gators are looking to defend their national championship, this is a huge blow to their campaign this season. Tebow is the focal point of the Gators offense. He is a quarterback who can run with the football as good as he can throw it. He is arguably the best college football player to ever play for Florida and with him out, the SEC becomes a free for all for teams like the LSU Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide who are both looking to take advantage of what they thought would be a Tebow – less conference but since he played anyway last Saturday to keep his team undefeated, I guess the only thing Tebow has to make sure now is to stay healthy.
Tebow began his college career as a role player, getting on the field in goal-line and short-yardage situations. But it didn’t take a while for him to become team captain, a Heisman Trophy winner and a two-time national champion.
He set records, made history and picked up enough awards to fill just about any trophy case.
The son of a missionary who has worked in the Philippines…
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